Following Monday, the House Foreign Affairs Committee will launch its long-awaited statement on the U. S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. Three years in the making, the report may examine the issue from a military, diplomatic, and intellect point of view.  ,
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The document has already been written. However, House Republicans are subpoenaing Secretary of State Antony Blinken to speak about the shoddy departure on September 19 and giving the implementation of the statement the celebrity treatment.  ,
” You served as the ultimate decision maker for the office on the drawback and evacuation”, Rep. Mike McCaul wrote in the text, demanding that Mr. Blinken seem before the screen. The Foreign Relations Committee is led by McCaul.
Blinken would not be obtainable on that day, according to State Department spokesman Matthew Miller, who criticized the agency’s rejection of what he called “reasonable alternatives to cooperate with Chairman McCaul’s ask for a common hear.”
The commission has issued but another unwanted subpoena, Mr. Miller wrote, regrettably, rather of continuing to cooperate with the ministry in good faith. He asserts that Blinken has testified before Congress 14 days (! ). ), four days before the Foreign Relations Committee.
Begging your pardon, dear, but testifying before Congress is Blinken’s transitory work. And considering the subject matter, he has n’t testified half enough about the Afghan withdrawal.
Liberals are making a great deal about Trump’s look at Arlington National Cemetery at the demand of the households of soldiers killed during the botched withdrawal, but the problem has once more come to forefront.  ,
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” It did serve as an accusation on the government’s foolish refusal to adequately prepare for the withdrawal”, Mr. McCaul said in a speech last week announcing the launch of the document. President Biden and Vice President Harris are “unable to continue to sweep their unmitigated disaster of epic proportions” under the rug.
The subpoena for Blinken’s testimony is the most recent in a line of actions by McCaul and other House Republicans over the past 18 months to hold the Biden administration accountable for what they have called a” stunning failure of leadership” after Taliban forces seized Kabul, much more quickly than American forces had anticipated as they left.
In a report to be released on Monday, the committee is expected to summarize its findings in an investigative report, which will be released in the wake of Republican nominee Donald Trump’s campaign pledge to make Afghanistan withdrawal a campaign issue.
Twenty years of war, more than 2, 400 dead. More than$ 7 billion in arms left behind. The Taliban’s tender mercies extended to the thousands of Afghans who supported the American military. The Afghan people were thrown back into the 12th century, with less women than cattle and a repressive government only to rival the madman in North Korea.  ,
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Why the hell should n’t it be a campaign issue? Trump has n’t” tried to elevate the withdrawal from Afghanistan” as a campaign issue. It already is one.
The Democrats are pretending it’s a non-issue, too. Rep. Gregory W. Meeks of New York, the top Democrat on the Foreign Affairs Committee, claimed McCaul’s subpoena was one of many “political stunts that depict the Republican Party’s desperation getting attention during an election season.”
The Biden administration stonewalled McCaul’s investigation from the beginning. It should come as no surprise that Blinken would decline to testify and provide insight into the mistakes the president and his people made while incompetently leaving Afghanistan.
